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fire heat be totally difcontinued for the 

 lea (on. 



The third feafon, the forcing may com- 

 mence on the rirft of March, without in- 

 juring the plants; and, if carefully per- 

 formed, a fair crop of fruit may be ob- 

 tained. Begin then, by making and re- 

 gulating the fires, fo as that the thermo- 

 meter may not ftand above 50 degrees at 

 feven in the morning, and eight or nine at 

 night ; keep it fo till every eye in the 

 houfe is broke ; and then gradually in- 

 creafe it to 60, 65, 70, and, when the 

 bloom begins to open, to 75 degrees. 



I have already hinted in another part of 

 this work, that vegetation in forcing ought to 

 be brought on as it .were by ftealth ; which 

 is the caufe of my advifing the above gra- 

 dual and progreffive rife in the. climate of 

 the houfe : and if this is not particularly 

 attended to in the firft fta'ge of the opera- 

 tion, dif appointments will follow, as the 

 plants will not break their eyes (arid of 

 confequence will not (how fruit) regular- 



ly - 



Keep the air of the houfe' as near to 

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